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No Spurs For Johnny Loop
Western
142 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 1967
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About the author
Edwin Booth
121 books1 followerEdwin Booth was a writer of Western fiction.
Edwin Booth, who also wrote under the names Don Blunt and Jack Hazard, was born in 1906 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to Colorado, where he studied civil engineering at Colorado College. During summer vacations Booth drove a milk truck, worked as a postal clerk, and guided tourists through Colorado's Cave of the Winds. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch hand. After moving to California, Booth worked in a chain grocery store while studying accounting. He later started his own accounting firm which supported him until he became established as an author of westerns and mystery stories. In the 1960s, Edwin Booth was an officer in Western Writers of America, an organization of writers dedicated to the advancement and promotion of literature about the American West.
Edwin Booth, who also wrote under the names Don Blunt and Jack Hazard, was born in 1906 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to Colorado, where he studied civil engineering at Colorado College. During summer vacations Booth drove a milk truck, worked as a postal clerk, and guided tourists through Colorado's Cave of the Winds. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch hand. After moving to California, Booth worked in a chain grocery store while studying accounting. He later started his own accounting firm which supported him until he became established as an author of westerns and mystery stories. In the 1960s, Edwin Booth was an officer in Western Writers of America, an organization of writers dedicated to the advancement and promotion of literature about the American West.
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February 7, 2019
First Edwin Booth novel I've ever read.
I picked this up intending to read a chapter or two to get a handle on the novel and was grabbed up by and propelled along with the narrative.
Not that it's a rip-roaring, wall-to-wall actioneer ...it's character driven.
And there's action aplenty when called for.
Best Western novel I've read in a long, long time.
Johnny Loop trains horses. It's a vocation, a calling. He knows he was meant to train horses, even if they're mostly untrained, unbridled farm horses back home in Iowa. He heads west - "to see the Pacific"- and earn his way by training horses along the way.
Out west in New Mexico and Arizona, he finds the horses considerably more ill tempered than the farm animals back east. Worse- though he's a particularly good at his job -it's hard for the folks in these Western locales to take a big, muscular man with red hair clad in bib overalls and clodhopper shoes seriously. He's sort of comedic looking... that is until you need a Mustang broken (a term Johnny Loop dislikes -he hates the idea of "breaking a horse"), or unless you try to brace the usually good-natured rube.
An absolutely wonderful read featuring a memorable lead character, the woman he falls in love with and ultimately has to fight for, his romantic rival and his gang of cut-throats, and a plot right out of a dusty old Zane Grey oater.
Highest Possible Recommendation
I picked this up intending to read a chapter or two to get a handle on the novel and was grabbed up by and propelled along with the narrative.
Not that it's a rip-roaring, wall-to-wall actioneer ...it's character driven.
And there's action aplenty when called for.
Best Western novel I've read in a long, long time.
Johnny Loop trains horses. It's a vocation, a calling. He knows he was meant to train horses, even if they're mostly untrained, unbridled farm horses back home in Iowa. He heads west - "to see the Pacific"- and earn his way by training horses along the way.
Out west in New Mexico and Arizona, he finds the horses considerably more ill tempered than the farm animals back east. Worse- though he's a particularly good at his job -it's hard for the folks in these Western locales to take a big, muscular man with red hair clad in bib overalls and clodhopper shoes seriously. He's sort of comedic looking... that is until you need a Mustang broken (a term Johnny Loop dislikes -he hates the idea of "breaking a horse"), or unless you try to brace the usually good-natured rube.
An absolutely wonderful read featuring a memorable lead character, the woman he falls in love with and ultimately has to fight for, his romantic rival and his gang of cut-throats, and a plot right out of a dusty old Zane Grey oater.
Highest Possible Recommendation
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